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There are various interpretations of the relationship at the center of the Shel Silverstein classic—not all of them positive.

It's gross, but does it reflect the reality of the 18th century? We investigate.

From the first manned Moon landing to Monty Python, here are 50 things marking a half-century on this planet (and beyond).

All those extravagant Great Hall meals can't come cheap.

Some fans thought it was terrifying. Others thought it was hilarious.

Classic titles by Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie, Winston Churchill, and Charlie Chaplin are now the public's property.

Despite being a star in her day, writer Zora Neale Hurston—who is best known for her novel 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'—was almost forgotten.

Enjoy these real-life recipes for once-fictional delicacies featured in some of your favorite books, movies, and TV shows.

Making errands more educational.

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Between on-set injuries, extensive script changes, and one whopper of a casting process, it’s amazing that a single film was produced at all.

Les Premières Œuvres de Jacques Devaulx showed the way to the New World in 1583.

The previous record was held by ‘All the Way,’ a play featuring Bryan Cranston as Lyndon Johnson.

In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov wrote a series of six science fiction novels for children using the pseudonym Paul French.

Oliver Wainwright's Inside North Korea provides a visual tour of the isolated nation.

The author is talking about the books, which may or may not end the same way as the HBO series.

They write for the parents, too.

Charles-Joseph Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia has been called the best statistical graphic ever created.

We rounded up some of the more surprising aspects of the first edition that were later cleaned up or scrubbed from the text altogether.

Technically, the author did give birth to the boy wizard.

They terrified Old Nan—and now we understand why.

Shirley Jackson, the famed author of 'The Lottery' and 'The Haunting of Hill House,' claimed to be a witch.

'Harry Potter and the Death Eaters' was one of a few other titles in the running.